Chris Perkins

If it was once coloured silver it could have been mistaked for a 6d. I have base metal GIII coins, including some very yellow ones that have remains of a silver colour in protected areas.

Yes I could, if I were in the UK!

Are you able to make pictures?

Is that according to your grading of the coins? Or is that what they cost you? I suspect the former.

It would have been silvered originally. I expect it has brass in it in some proportion!

You'll continue to be brushed aside until you're as old as Geoff and have a respectable beard like his! That's just a fact of life.

Why'd you have to come in with your wisdom about 5 mins after I'd emailed the designer with what we both thought were final changes! I've emailed him again with that last thing. (thanks)

Who knows what strange alloys the forgers used back then. Brass with lead, or who knows. But, the coin looks of inferior quality and it's too light. If it was gold and even heavily worn gold and thinner it would have to be over 1.7g in weight. I bet that it turns out not to be gold, and as mentioned above it's most probably a forged 6d made of god knows what. Do let us know.

Have they? What, from Dartford? Dartford is about the centre of the universe right on the M25. Who on earth wants to go to Bracknell!!

Then you need to get it tested (electronically or chemically) to find out if it really is gold and how pure it is.

No it isn't! The design is wrong and so is the weight. I admire your eagerness nik a tron, but until you actually have a rough idea about what you're talking about, perhaps you better listen(read) more and ask questions instead of making statements.

If it was gold it'd be heavier. I suspect it's a sixpence that someone has made to look like gold in order to pass it off as a half sovereign. Or, some kind of forged sixpence.

It's in the editorial or perhaps readers letter, something like that. It's a piece about the 1992 10p varieties.

I used to get a free one, but then they realised I wasn't advertising anymore (mainly because they wouldn't let me mention my books) and they stopped it.

Does anyone have one? They don't send me a free copy anymore and I'd like to see the info in this months issue about the 1992 10p varieties.

Are there not 2 types of 1990 small 5p's, one with a sharp rim, the other rounded? (much like the first small 10p varieties?) I seem to remember that being the case, but can find no reference and I don't have enough 5p's to check!

You do get coins in that good condition that are that old! You can get 2000+ year old coins that look like new and are genuine. They're rare of course, and when something rare is priced too good to be true then you should be wary. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it doesn't have to always be a duck!

I've got one of those 50p blank planchets, but mine has a raised rim like the finished coin. How much did you pay for yours?

What you saw above was not finished. The book will include 2006 coins, but not 2007. And I hope it will be an annual publication.

No of course not. You cannot put an exact value on a slabbed coin until it's actually sold for x amount. Banks want cash money. I'd probably take slabbed coins for a debt!

Then you should have my book! It's a price guide, but does include lots of other data. Collectors' Coins GB 2007 is what it's called. Available from predecimal.com, Amazon.co.uk and a few other places.

Yes, but what you can do on a forum and what you should do on a book are quite different!!!! Most of all......I hate what seems to be more an american tend......whereby people write things with lots of full stops linking bits up..........as if they are speaking, or as if the don't really know where to put full stops and commas.

Amazing how the same things happen generation after generation. That sounds exactly like my situation, except they were both brunettes at the time and weren't twins. They did say they were cousins and I know their dads drunk in the pub together. I sat next to Chloe in Science because one day the teacher asked sarcastically where I would like to sit, and I told him. He thought it would be a good idea because she was rubbish at science and I was pretty good. She's still grateful now that I was able to dissect the ox's eye and sheeps heart instead of her, and that I helped her get some kind of GCSE grade when she probably wouldn't have got one at all otherwise. Red Riley: Thanks, I'll change those bits. Good comments.

The ones that aren't that obvious by reading them, are: Top Right, William III Shilling. Bottom Right, Ottoman Empire Coin (Turkey, Egypt and that area) Middle 2 at the bottom are Belgian. Middle right, possibly Russian, not sure. The 2 unreadable are not possible to ID with that pic.

I think it'll have to stay as it is, unless you can come up with something better than "a plethora of delights await you"!